Building problems on win32

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

I think a lot of these changes are better made directly to install.sh, 
rather than the wiki (aside from the registry hack); Andreas, do you agree?

Youssef Ltaief wrote, on 1/8/2009 1:26 AM:
> Adam,
> Could you please update the wiki steps so windows users can follow what you did. I have been trying for a while now without success
> Thanks
> Youssef
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org>
> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 4:35:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Building problems on win32
> 
> Yup, the registry hack seems to fix it.
> 
> Andreas Köhler wrote, on 1/7/2009 5:28 PM:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> great work, I will try to integrate it subsequently in the following days.
>>
>> When gnucash fails to find certain files, consider an installed copy of 
>> gnucash.  We do some crazy things, probably look up paths in the 
>> registry or stuff like that.  Does renaming HKLM\Software\GnuCash change 
>> anything?  We need a better solution here as well...
>>
>> Ciao,
>> -- andi5
>>
>> Adam Rosi-Kessel schrieb:
>>> msys/mingw finally fixed a bug that was preventing me from building 
>>> gnc from source (see 
>>> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/28356/focus=28594>).
>>>
>>> packaging/win32/install.sh does not work without several changes. The 
>>> URLs for libxslt, gwenhywfar, and aqbanking all appear to be dead. The 
>>> following substitute URLs appeared to work, though:
>>>
>>> LIBXSLT_URL="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/oldreleases/libxslt-1.1.19.win32.zip" 
>>>
>>> GWENHYWFAR_URL="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/gwenhywfar-3.4.1.tar.gz" 
>>>
>>> AQBANKING_URL="http://www2.aquamaniac.de/sites/download/download.php?package=03&release=17&file=01&dummy=aqbanking-3.7.2.tar.gz" 
>>>
>>>
>>> I also eventually gave up on building aqbanking with QT so set 
>>> AQBANKING_WITH_QT to 'no'; but install.sh attempts to build aqbanking 
>>> with backend 'aqdtaus', which no longer exists as a separate backend 
>>> in the version of aqbanking specified in install.sh. I got around this 
>>> by substituting "all" for the list of backends previously specified in 
>>> install.sh (aqdtaus, aqhbci, aqofxconnect).
>>>
>>> htmlhelper had to be manually installed into c:\soft\hh; a more recent 
>>> version was already installed in the default location on my machine 
>>> (under c:\program files), which the installer did not pick up on. I 
>>> couldn't figure out any work around other than to just copy C:\Program 
>>> Files\HTML Help Workshop to c:\soft\hh.
>>>
>>> I also had to manually copy several DLLs to get xmlmerge.exe to work 
>>> in the build process; I had to copy those same DLLs to the gnc bin 
>>> installation folder to get gnc to run once it was built.
>>>
>>> So after a full day of churning, I finally had a successful build from 
>>> svn. Well, almost. gnc runs to the point of showing the tip of the day 
>>> and the splash screen, but then dies silently. Here is the log:
>>>
>>> *   WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 
>>> 'c:\soft\gnucash\inst\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-aqbanking.dll': The 
>>> specified module could not be found.
>>> *   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2148 bytes.
>>> The identifiers might not be very random.
>>> *   WARN <gnc.engine> failed to load gncmod-backend-dbi from 
>>> C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\gnucash
>>> *   CRIT <gnc.engine> required library gncmod-backend-dbi not found.
>>> *   WARN <gnc.engine> failed to load gncmod-backend-xml from 
>>> C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\gnucash
>>> *   CRIT <gnc.engine> required library gncmod-backend-xml not found.
>>> *   CRIT <gnc.gui> [gnc_gnome_locate_data_file()] Could not locate 
>>> file ui/gnc-plugin-csv-ui.xml
>>> *   WARN <gnc.module> Initialization failed for module 
>>> gnucash/business-core-xml
>>> *   WARN <gnc.module> Initialization failed for module 
>>> gnucash/business-core-sql
>>> *   WARN <gnc.bin> GnuCash engine failed to initialize.  Exiting.
>>>
>>> So I still can't run gnc svn (which I'm trying to do to test out the 
>>> fix to bug #426111), but I thought I'd pass this all along in case it 
>>> helps improve the build process.
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